EXECRABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does execrable mean? 

• EXECRABLE (adjective)
  The adjective EXECRABLE has 3 senses:

1. of very poor quality or condition

2. unequivocally detestable

3. deserving a curse

  Familiarity information: EXECRABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECRABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of very poor quality or condition

Synonyms:

deplorable; execrable; miserable; woeful; wretched

Context example:

woeful errors of judgment

Similar:

inferior (of low or inferior quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unequivocally detestable

Synonyms:

abominable; detestable; execrable; odious

Context example:

consequences odious to those you govern

Similar:

hateful (evoking or deserving hatred)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deserving a curse

Synonyms:

damnable; execrable

Context example:

her damnable pride

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)